Chapter 120 Divine Ruins (2/2)

To her, all these ways of dealing with things were the same as using a spell. When she used it, she could be better than those people with the richest of emotions.

However, a way to deal with things would remain as a way, and it would not affect what she was truly pursuing.

”Actually, I really don’t understand why you insist on walking on a path of Dao as such. You were not like that when you were young.”

”Senior Apprentice-Sister, have you seen the flowers on the cliff? Only when they posit themselves above the masses, they could bloom so beautifully. To me, it is the same.”

The room door was pushed open, and it was still raining heavily. Zhao Xiaoyu did not use an umbrella. When the raindrops were about to fall onto her, they were pushed away by an invisible force.

Her shadow disappeared in the rainy night too.

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It rained for the entire night up till the morning of the second day. Even then, it had no signs of stopping. The Anping Canal was deep enough. It carried all the rainfall out of Shendu City, sparing Shendu from the flood.

Shen Lian looked at the rain, and he knew that the timing of the rain was not a coincidence.

Ever since the speechless clash at the Xiangji Temple, the Qi dynamic at Shendu was undergoing drastic changes.

It was as though a giant dragon in slumber was woken up out of a sudden.

If the Feng Shui tactical formation of Shendu City and its surrounding mountains and water were to be akin as a giant dragon, then Xiangji Temple would be where the dragon scales are, and the Imperial City would be the dragon belly.

The Empress would be the spirit of the giant dragon. The Qi of earth and the wishes of the masses that gathered would be the blood that coursed through its vein.

The Daoists had an ingenious state; it was known as the Unity of Universe and Human. By melting one amidst the heaven and earth, the strength of heaven and earth could be engaged to generate an immense power.

There were some similarities between the Empress’ state and a Daoist’s state; in the Shendu City, her power would be the highest.

However, as compared to the heaven and earth, the Empress was still unimaginably weak. This was why she decided to build the Xiangji Temple. Through a certain occult technique, she could confer a title of deity and could relay the additional power that she was conferred upon.

As the Xiangji Buddha grew, she might be able to improve accordingly; a mystical bond was formed between the two.

Actually, if the Xiangji Buddha were to be changed into a Daoist deity, there would not be any difference; if the Xiangji Temple were to be changed into a Daoist temple, there would not be any difference either. However, since the previous dynasty was fond of Daoist, and Buddhism gathered believers more effectively, the Empress did not hesitate to opt for Buddhism.

The long arrow broke through the spell of the Xiangji Buddha, and seemed to have brought forth quite a bit of hassle to the Empress. This broke the balance.

The changing of Dynasty by the Empress was not done according to the heavenly fate, which was why the Qi of dragon was not very strong and had a lot of hidden weaknesses. As the chain of reaction took place, even the Earth point of Shendu was changing, causing these natural phenomena.

Zhao Xiaoyu saw through this and acted according to the way of heaven. With the aid of external influences, she managed to break away the formation at Xiangji Temple.

The Empress might have sensed something, which was why she decided to station herself at the Xiangji Temple. She did not expect the arrow of black air to be something that suppressed the spell at Xiangji Temple, which was why she did not succeed.

Regardless of everything that Zhao Xiaoyu had done, the best outcome was just her gaining the right to fight the Empress on equal grounds.

The time for the final battle seemed to be near and would be coming soon.

Shen Lian was not happy with the analysis that he came up with. Despite that the Feng Shui tactical formation that controlled the Qi of earth, the abstruseness of it still did not allow for him to figure out the way to deal naturally with the eight Qi of Taixu.

He knew that he was only a step away from mastering the basics of Taixu Strategy, and all he needed was an opportunity. Maybe that would arise during the final battle between the Empress and Zhao Xiaoyu.